This is my first time using XAMPP, but it's required to use for my PHP course. My laptop is using Windows 7 Professional 64bit (freshly reformatted), and I extracted xampp-win32-1.7.3.zip to C:\xampp. I used the default settings during setup. In the Control Panel, I check Apache and MySQL, but when I press start, it says "Apache service started" but does not change to running. The same thing happens to MySQL. Any help would be appreciated!

Well, you use the zip version.Have you executed the setup_xampp.bat file after unzipping?Windows Services can only be used with the correct paths (by default that should already be setted to c:\xampp, but maybe you don't have c:\xampp but c:\xampp\xampp that isn't clear in your description).Executing the setup_xampp.bat file is a good idea for setting a default timezone for PHP too.

On my Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit test notebook XAMPP is running very well with Windows Services.

Last edited by Altrea on 26. January 2011 05:31, edited 1 time in total.

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